Second Alpha of Damn Small Linux 4.0 Released

The second Alpha of the upcoming DSL (Damn Small Linux) 4.0, has just been released today. The DSL 4.0 Alpha 2 release contains the following fixes and improvements:

￭ Fixed shutdown bug. ￭ Added more associations for dfm. ￭ Updated exit.lua to support swm "exit to prompt". ￭ Fixed bug with dfm when booted "legacy". ￭ Added .mtoolsrc mtools_skip_check=1 ￭ Cut rarely used modules (will be available as a separate download). ￭ Restored netfilter modules for rc.firewall. ￭ Fixed bug in cpanel concerning start of cron (MyCron). ￭ Fixed bug in dsl-config for hard drive installations. ￭ Fixed wrong cloop in core affecting hard drive installations. ￭ Improved hard drive installation for new MyDSL system. ￭ Fixed bug in flux2jwm affecting menu items doubling up. ￭ Updated many icons for better appearance. ￭ Red folder now opens with root privileges. ￭ Commented out xload monitor in jwm since torsmo provides this.

While being powered by JWM (Joe's Window Manager), DSL 4.0 includes powerful and useful applications for daily use, like Dillo, Netrik and Firefox web browsers, the Sylpheed e-mail client, Xzgv image viewer, Xpaint photo editor and the emelFM file manager. Below is a list of more great applications you can find inside Damn Small Linux:

￭ XMMS (mp3, ogg, mpeg, cd audio) and mp321 and ogg123 (that's right, you've got Music and Video) ￭ Vim, an enhanced Vi ￭ Assorted Xbase utilities (Xcalc etc.) ￭ ssh, sshd ￭ betaftpd, a very small FTP daemon ￭ Sqlite a small and very fast SQL database engine ￭ Nano, a Pico Clone ￭ MS Office Viwer ￭ Postscript Viewer ￭ AxY FTP ￭ Telnet client ￭ Microcom ￭ Midnight Commander ￭ Bash Burn, CD Burning App ￭ Fast and Light GUI Admin tools ￭ Monkey web server ￭ VNCviewer ￭ Rdesktop

Damn Small Linux is a very small (50 MB) and fast desktop-oriented Linux distribution. It can:

￭ boot from a business card CD; ￭ boot from a USB pen drive; ￭ run *inside* Windows; ￭ run very nicely from an IDE Compact Flash drive; ￭ be transformed into a Debian OS with a traditional hard drive install; ￭ run light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of Ram; ￭ run fully in RAM with as little as 128MB (you will be amazed at how fast your computer can be!); ￭ highly extendable without the need of customizing.

For more information about this release please visit the official announcement.

Here are some screenshots of Damn Small Linux 4 in action: